BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
(From, our Own Correspondent.) Bad News from East and West Coasts. Seven more Friendlies shot!, Reinforcements forwarded to Napier. The Rebels in possession of all country from Wanganui to New Plymouth! Dreadful Havoc by the Rebels I Calling out all the Militia ia Wellington- , Stafford elected for Timaru. Wellington, Friday, Nov, 20. .: 6*50 p.m.Many of the refugees have arrived atNapier, from the Wairoa. The present whereabouts of the rebels isnot known- ..... ■- • The war-ship Rosario has gone to Tau-; ranga-kia, [where there is a mission station situate about 25 miles from Poverty Bay.] The Rebels have shot seven of the friendlies. ' .' ' ' Reinforcements have been forwarded from here, making the force 700.
Te Kooti burnt all the rifles taken from the friendlies whom they took prisoners. Py last accounts the enemy [rebels 1] were 8 miles from Tauranga-kia. .Mrs. Wilson, Captain Wilson’s widow, was found alive, having seven bayonet wounds on her body. The entire country from Wanganui to within a short distance from New Plymouth, (Taranaki.) js in the hands of the rebels J
■^The 1 settlers ’ houses" 'anj burnt. iti ail dl rectiuns, and in great numbers !
Titoko Waru’s whex-eabouts is not known,
The Governor has returned from Wanganui, and has issued a warrant calling out
all the militia in the Wellington District for active service !
Stafford has been elected member for Timaru, without opposition, and amid loud cheers.
No signs of the Panama Mail yet.
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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 145, 21 November 1868, Page 3
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239BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 145, 21 November 1868, Page 3
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